Fallout 4 Pre-Release Discussion [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Excidium II]

Yeah what the hell, why is stuff like grass and rocks disappearing when textures are set to ultra or AO is turned on?

 

[Zeronet]

Anybody remember Bethesda having this rule that Fallout games had to advance the timeline? And maybe a source? I'm sure i heard that they refused to set games further back.

 

[bonescraper]

My biggest concern is the one and only one texture setting, regardless of the options.

 

[Kem0sabe]

This thread will brake all codex records... in every terrible and unimaginative way ever conceived.

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

My biggest concern is the one and only one texture setting, regardless of the options.

Maybe a form of artificial parity? It means that even at max the PC version doesn't look too much better than its console counterparts. We'll bitch and moan, but console owners will complain about their fps trouble and consider it even. Flash forward a month and Bethesda releases a texture pack, or a patch that unlocks true tiers on PC. Suddenly the PC Fallout 4 looks leagues better. But nobody will care. "That's what happens on PC." Whether it came from the developer or a modder, it's expected.



But right now at launch? Consolefags get to reassure themselves they're not missing much.

 

[Gord]

Anybody remember Bethesda having this rule that Fallout games had to advance the timeline? And maybe a source? I'm sure i heard that they refused to set games further back.

It's really implausible seeing tons of unclaimed but useful stuff lying around (in populated areas) 200 years after the war, as if the original owners just left a few days ago.
For Bethesdas approach to Fallout, it would make much more sense to set the games shortly after the war.
For a short time I actually thought they would try to do this with that instalment, but I was obviously wrong...

No idea though if there's some house-rule concerning that.

 

[J_C]

"Having everything streamlined into one unified skill tree makes sense"-- http://www.thejimquisition.com/2015/11/fallout-4-review-s-p-e-c-i-a-l/

How the fuck dumbing down makes sense Jim?

 

[Fargus]

Spoiler

 

[Infinitron]

I think people give Bethesda too much credit by assuming "they originally wanted to make a game 30 years after the apocalypse" or whatever. No, they didn't, they just had this idea in their head of what a stereotypical post-apocalypse is "supposed" to look like and they stuck to it.

Making a game in the actual post-apocalypse would be way too ambitious for them. That means dealing with people who still remember the pre-war world, and all kinds of stuff that was never part of Fallout.

 

[28.8bps Modem]

Who cares if the PC version is better or worse than the console version... that only matters if you're going to play it. Bitching about how Bethesda ruined Fallout is more fun and less money.

Who's up for some Starcraft?

 

[Ausdoerrt]

The game is ugly as fuck for a shooter in 2015.

It's not a "shooter", it's a "revolushunuree aR-Pee-Gee".

 

[bonescraper]

Now that's what i call visual storytelling

 

[J_C]

Fuck you fargo.

Fuck you fargo.

Fuck you fargo.

And people say inXile are going to save crpg.

Idiots detected. It's not like Inxile made a good cRPG last year. No, they can't like any game which is mainstream, because this means that all of their previous work is invalidated.

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

It's really implausible seeing tons of unclaimed but useful stuff lying around (in populated areas) 200 years after the war, as if the original owners just left a few days ago.

The Glow was fourteen days out in the middle of nowhere, known about by a reclusive order of techno-centric dickholes and bathed in enough radiation to fry you if you didn't have rad resistant armor and a lot of Rad-X. Oh, then there's the careful management of power and killer robots. But you dealt with all that because it was a veritable oasis of resources. I'm sure that place alone could change the economy of the local towns just by selling loot.



Bethesda's Fallouts will introduce hoards not quite on the same scale, but just a couple miles from a settlement. With hardly any defenses or natural barriers or reasons why somebody didn't pick them clean centuries before.

 

[Excidium II]

25GB download, it's over four times as big as Skyrim

 

[Excidium II]

Idiots detected. It's not like Inxile made a good cRPG last year.

hehehehehehehehehe

 

[Kem0sabe]

Idiots detected. It's not like Inxile made a good cRPG last year

They did? thats news to me.

 

[dbx]

Maybe a form of artificial parity? It means that even at max the PC version doesn't look too much better than its console counterparts. We'll bitch and moan, but console owners will complain about their fps trouble and consider it even. Flash forward a month and Bethesda releases a texture pack, or a patch that unlocks true tiers on PC. Suddenly the PC Fallout 4 looks leagues better. But nobody will care. "That's what happens on PC." Whether it came from the developer or a modder, it's expected.



But right now at launch? Consolefags get to reassure themselves they're not missing much.

Didn't they do the same thing with skyrim?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Idiots detected.

Look guise, found another one!

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Fargo's just quoting the title of the Polygon article.

I guess you could say he got caught in the fallout.




I'll go sit in the corner now.

 

[sstacks]

World Health Organization and CDC tracking impending "Fallout Flu" epidemic predicted to hit tomorrow.

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

From the Digital Foundry video;

I don't care what platform you're on, that stuff to the right is ugly.

 

[Astral Rag]

Looks like some Unity Engine abomination.

Also from Digital Foundry:

On top of this, Xbox One is unique in its suffering of a stuttering issue, halting the game experience for up to a second during play. It's a glaring hitch downward, and matching runs to the gates of Diamond City shows Xbox One dropping to a record 0fps (zero) while PS4 turns the same corner at 28fps.

 

[Daedalos]

Who the fuck buys a console? BUT WHO THE FUCK BUYS AN XBOX? leeeeeeeeel

Dumb faggots.

 

[Astral Rag]